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GRPCONV.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Cloaked Malware
- Malware Dropper
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
GRPCONV.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Executes a Process
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Injects code into other processes
- Copies files
- Modifies Windows Security Policies to restrict/expand User Privileges on the machine
- Disables Access to the Task Manager built into Windows
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- This process creates other processes on disk
GRPCONV.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Executed from Temporary Folders
Country Of Origin
The filename GRPCONV.EXE was first seen on Aug 30 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- on Aug 30 2007
- The United States on Mar 16 2008
- on Jun 30 2009
- Italy on Jun 30 2009
- Mexico on Mar 12 2010
- Dominican Republic on Jun 26 2010
- Lithuania on Jun 26 2010
- The United Kingdom on Dec 8 2010
File Name Aliases
GRPCONV.EXE can also use the following file names:
- LOAD_019.EXE
- LOAD[n].EXE
- XXX (n).EXE
- LOAD_005.EXE
- LOAD.EXE
- LOAD_006.EXE
- LODAD_2.EXE
- LOAD_004.EXE
- LOAD_015.EXE
- LOAD_029.EXE
- LOAD_007.EXE
- LOAD_017.EXE
- FILE.EXE
- LOAD_021.EXE
- LOAD_012.EXE
- LOAD_001.EXE
- LOAD_002.EXE
- LOAD_018.EXE
- LOAD_036.EXE
- PDFUPD.EXE
- LOAD_032.EXE
- MRG-0036.EXE
- LOAD[1].EXE
- MRG-0860.EXE
- TMP081.EXE
- 1[1].EXE
- 77730.EXE
- 004999.EXE
- ~TM27FB4A.TMP
- 64270346.DAT
- 56236971.EXE
- 69494441.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 67,072 bytes
- 40,960 bytes
- 23,552 bytes
- 113,152 bytes
- 50,688 bytes
- 36,352 bytes
- 153,600 bytes
File Type
The filename GRPCONV.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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